Media Summit for Friday

By Zephania Ubwani, The Monitor (Kampala)
Arusha

The East African Community in collaboration with the East African Business Council will hold a top level East African Media Summit in Nairobi on Friday and Saturday.

It is intended to raise media awareness and also increase press coverage of the East African regional integration and development process.

The summit will bring together chief executive officers of media houses, media executives, publishers, editors and senior journalists from leading media houses in the region to discuss the role of the media in the regional integration process.

The summit whose theme is "The Role of the Media in the Regional Integration and Development Process " will also provide an opportunity for the development of EAC's new Media strategy towards a more robust media role in the EAC integration.

Kenya's Minister for East African Community John arap Koech is expected to open the summit while EAC secretary general Dr Juma Mwapachu will deliver the keynote address, according to a press statement issued by the Community.